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The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.
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| Sentence | Sentiment | Bias |
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| "According to the White House, Biden wants Attorney General Merrick Garland to move the U.S. as close to universal background checks as possible without additional legislation." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "What effect the update will have depends largely on enforcement by the Department of Justice, particularly the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "He also instructed federal law enforcement agencies to issue stricter policies requiring the submission of data to the National Integrated Ballistics Information Network, or NIBIN, a database that allows for law enforcement to compare ballistic evidence to but has not been widely adopted." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Biden has tried for decades to get Congress to pass universal background checks, which would require all sellers to initiate a background check before any gun sale." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "The order largely directs federal agencies under Biden's control to step up enforcement, clarify existing federal gun laws, and take new steps to implement the Safer Communities Act." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "Biden's executive order directs Garland to provide additional clarification to the statutory definition of engaged in the business as it now appears in the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "According to the White House, Biden wants Attorney General Merrick Garland to move the U.S. as close to universal background checks as possible without additional legislation." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Biden is also directing his cabinet to develop a proposal for how the federal government can better support communities after a mass shooting." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "President Biden's executive order is bold, sweeping, and will save thousands of lives, Democratic Senator Chris Murphy wrote on Twitter." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "President Biden's executive order is bold, sweeping, and will save thousands of lives, Democratic Senator Chris Murphy wrote on Twitter." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "The declaration sounds sweeping, but the particulars of Biden's directive are quite narrow: Biden is asking the DOJ to ensure that more firearms sellers obtain a Federal Firearms License, which in turn would require them to perform background checks on gun sales." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "The declaration sounds sweeping, but the particulars of Biden's directive are quite narrow: Biden is asking the DOJ to ensure that more firearms sellers obtain a Federal Firearms License, which in turn would require them to perform background checks on gun sales." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "It could also mean that Biden wants the DOD to influence gun companies to self regulate in other ways." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Biden's executive order aims to provide the public with more information on federally licensed dealers who have violated the law." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Following the outcry, Senators Diae Feinstein and Ed Markey wrote a letter to the FTC urging it to investigate." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Following the outcry, Senators Diae Feinstein and Ed Markey wrote a letter to the FTC urging it to investigate." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "During a March 14 visit to Monterey Park, California -- where a gunman killed nine people and injured 11 more in January -- President Joe Biden is expected to sign a wide-ranging executive order intended to address gun violence." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Despite the attention on Biden's effort to increase the number of background checks, the freshest elements of the executive order deal with the gun industry, particularly manufacturers, and how they market their guns and run their businesses." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "In a portion of the executive order aimed at holding the gun industry accountable, Biden is set to direct the Department of Defense to use its purchasing power to further firearm and public safety practices." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "It is critical to reign in those Americans who sell firearms privately absent background checks with a reckless disregard for public safety, said David Chipman, a former ATF special agent and Biden's first nominee to be director of the ATF." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Biden has tried for decades to get Congress to pass universal background checks, which would require all sellers to initiate a background check before any gun sale." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "The order largely directs federal agencies under Biden's control to step up enforcement, clarify existing federal gun laws, and take new steps to implement the Safer Communities Act." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "It signals that Biden has not abandoned the issue of gun violence even after Republicans took control of Congress, likely forestalling any new federal legislation on guns for at least the next two years." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Elsewhere in the order, Biden directs the Department of Transportation and the DOJ to come up with a plan to reduce the risk of firearms theft during shipment." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "At the center of the order is a familiar issue for Biden: background checks." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
54% : According to the White House, Biden wants Attorney General Merrick Garland to "move the U.S. as close to universal background checks as possible without additional legislation."53% : What effect the update will have depends largely on enforcement by the Department of Justice, particularly the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
50% : He also instructed federal law enforcement agencies to issue stricter policies requiring the submission of data to the National Integrated Ballistics Information Network, or NIBIN, a database that allows for law enforcement to compare ballistic evidence to but has not been widely adopted.
43% : Biden has tried for decades to get Congress to pass universal background checks, which would require all sellers to initiate a background check before any gun sale.
41% : The order largely directs federal agencies under Biden's control to step up enforcement, clarify existing federal gun laws, and take new steps to implement the Safer Communities Act.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.